http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=948804 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=948804#c26 --- Comment #26 from Michael Matz --- glibc-locale is a 120MB package, it contains charset converters, localized message catalogs for glibc messages and the locale definitions (e.g. what's the currency symbol), and such. All of those have defaults for when locales aren't available. So what ideally would happen is that libguile doesn't throw error messages when glibc-locale isn't installed (and instead just uses defaults), so that the user is free to minimize his install size. But I agree with comment #12, that's not something for a distro-specific patch, it should be upstream. As to what would need to happen for this to be the case: that obviously depends on what libguile uses the locale stuff for, and making this optional. That's something for guile developers. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.